30 May 1968
RE SHANG KIANG YUEN
- Citation
- RE SHANG KIANG YUEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP60/1968
Section 8(2) of the Supreme Court Ordinance was not impliedly repealed by the Mental Health Ordinance; read with s.77 Cap. I the reference to the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts imports the Mental Health Act 1959 as the operative English statute; judges in Hong Kong therefore have jurisdiction to appoint a receiver under s.105 of the Mental Health Act 1959 (not under the now repealed Lunacy Acts). An interlocutory oral objection to jurisdiction in chambers does not constitute a separately appealable 'proceeding' under s.29 so a stay pending appeal was refused.